firefox 23.0.1

[daryl66]

My "travels the US better half" uses firefox as her primary browser. She just pointed out to me that one of her necessary web sites has a link to a page that the URL ends with PDF.  Clicking on that link opens up a new tab and a blank page. It works fine with Safari. I cannot seem to find a preference or anything that solves this issue?

OSX 10.8.(whatever is latest)
Firefox 23.0.1

Daryl

[jchuzi]

Can you post a link? I'll try it with FF 23.0.1 and OS 10.6.8. BTW, I just tried a PDF via the IRS (for kicks only!) and it worked fine.

[daryl66]

QUOTE(jchuzi @ Aug 28 2013, 11:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Can you post a link? I'll try it with FF 23.0.1 and OS 10.6.8. BTW, I just tried a PDF via the IRS (for kicks only!) and it worked fine.

Well this is the particular one I was talking about.     http://www.pesihealthcare.com/search/detai...x?eventid=59418

scroll down the page to the link "inside brochure"  or "outside brochure" thems the culprits.  She tells me it happens anytime she trys to open a pdf link, not just this one



pursing around the different forums it looks to me like maybe I have to download a "PDF viewer" plug in or add on to get it to work.  Lots of threads going back a ways relating to the same issue.

I just updated ff to 23.0.1 on my MBP and it does the same thing here

Daryl

[daryl66]

QUOTE(jchuzi @ Aug 28 2013, 11:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Can you post a link? I'll try it with FF 23.0.1 and OS 10.6.8. BTW, I just tried a PDF via the IRS (for kicks only!) and it worked fine.

OK  just fixed it.   ff>tools>viewing pdf>open in same tab.

Dary

[daryl66]

QUOTE(daryl66 @ Aug 28 2013, 12:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

OK  just fixed it.   ff>tools>viewing pdf>open in same tab.

Dary

Another little tidbit.  I had to disable the "add on" PDF download 3.0.0.2 to get it to work consistently. In testing it I found that about one time in 3  when hitting the link it opened 2 more tabs. The first new one was blank then it immediately opened another tab with the correct pdf page. U I disabled the pdf download and tried it several times and now it seems to be working the way I think it should.


Daryl